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Open Access Journals
 Websites presented in alphabetical order AccessMyLibrary 
 "Free access to millions of articles from top publications available at your library." Search, or browse articles by publication or subject in areas such as business, health, law, and sports. Gain access to material by inputting your library card number, or you may register for 30-day free membership. Includes maps of member libraries. From the Gale Group. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/ Topics: Magazines Last updated Aug 10, 2009 BioMed Central: The Open Access Publisher
"BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. All the original research articles in journals published by BioMed Central are immediately and permanently available online without charge." The site provides access to over 100 journals covering all areas of biology and medicine. Searchable and browsable. Registration required for searching. http://www.biomedcentral.com Topics: Health, Health, Magazines Last updated Aug 10, 2009 Cufts
Use the database in the "Tools" section of this site to look up a magazine or journal by title or ISSN and find out what databases index that journal and what databases include full text. Use the "Resource Comparison " to find out the overlap between two electronic collections and what titles are unique to each. Developed by Simon Fraser University Library for the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL). http://researcher.sfu.ca/cufts Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Magazines Last updated Aug 10, 2009 Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
"This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals." Includes listings for journals from a variety of subject areas and countries. Searchable, and browsable by subject or journal title. From Lund University Libraries, Sweden. http://www.doaj.org/ Topics: Magazines Last updated Aug 10, 2009 Ejournals
This resource page is full of links to information about electronic journals. They include an explanation of ejournals; directories of ejournals; directories of publishers and vendors; copyright, collection development, and licensing information; directories of library consortia; poster sessions on ejournals in libraries; and additional reading from professional journals on this subject. This is a very useful source for librarians dealing with the proliferation of information available in electronic format. http://nnlm.gov/rsdd/ejournals/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Magazines Last updated Aug 10, 2009 Intute Repository Search
Searchers "can find descriptions from over 166,000 working papers, journal articles, reports, conference papers, and other scholarly items that have been deposited into 86 UK eprints repositories. Search results link to original items provided these have been made available by the originating institution." Advanced search allows selection of specific repositories. From Intute. http://www.intute.ac.uk/irs/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Magazines Last updated Aug 10, 2009 Journal Info
This database, released in June 2007, provides information about 18,000 journals surveyed from about 30 major databases and covering a broad range of academic disciplines. Its primary purpose is "to provide an aid for the researcher in the selection of journals for publication." It looks at the scope, quality, availability, and other factors. Searchable, or browse by subject. In English and Swedish. From Lund University Libraries with support from the National Library of Sweden. http://jinfo.lub.lu.se Topics: Magazines Last updated Aug 10, 2009 Open Access Day: October 14, 2008
Blog for the first ever Open Access Day on October 14, 2008. "Open Access is a growing international movement that. ... encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results" using the Internet. Includes information about how researchers, librarians, and other individuals can get involved. The founding partners are SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), Students for FreeCulture, and the Public Library of Science. http://openaccessday.org/ Topics: Magazines Last updated Sep 15, 2008 Open Science Directory
This database contains listings for about 13,000 open access scientific journals, with plans to expand to 200,00 journals. Searchable, or browse by journal title, collections from specific providers (such as Directory of Open Access Journals, BioMed, PubMed, and High Wire Press), or subject. (The providers "have their own regulations and eligibility conditions.") Journal listings note the date range of issues available. Developed by EBSCO and the Hasselt University Library. http://www.opensciencedirectory.net Topics: Magazines Last updated Aug 10, 2009 PLoS: Public Library of Science
This site serves as a gateway to two "open access" journals, PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine, which are high-quality, rigorously-reviewed (but freely available) alternatives to traditional academic journals from commercial publishers. Provided by "a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource." http://www.plos.org/ Topics: Health, Health, Magazines, Medical Treatments & Devices Last updated Aug 10, 2009 ScienceResearch.com
This site is "a free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases." Search for materials in the topics of astronomy, biology, chemistry, computers, environmental sciences, engineering, health and medicine, materials science, mathematics, physics, and social sciences. Also includes links to related sites. From a software company. http://www.scienceresearch.com Topics: Magazines, Science Last updated Aug 10, 2009 |
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